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The European Commission has mobilized EUR 4 million additional emergency assistance to address urgent humanitarian needs in eastern Ukraine, bringing the total EU humanitarian aid in response to the crisis to EUR 26.4 million in 2016, according to the press service of the EU Delegation to Ukraine. ”We have kept the humanitarian aspects of the...

Footage showing tests of a new Ukrainian missile has been shared on the Internet. The relevant video was posted on the YouTube channel of Kyiv`s Luch State Design Bureau, which is part of Ukroboronprom State Concern. The design bureau does not indicate what type of a missile is shown on the video, however, according to the Ukrainian news portal...

As of today, three of the four issues have been agreed, in respect of which the Netherlands wishes the legally binding declaration to be adopted, to allow for the ratification of the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement, an UNIAN correspondent in Brussels reported, citing her diplomatic sources. See also: Dutch to demand limits on Ukraine deal at EU...

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine forecasts the inflation rate December to December at 13.6% in connection with a moderate rise in prices due to a seasonal increase in demand, a slight tension in the foreign exchange market, and the rise in world commodity prices volatility. ”The risk of increasing inflation in the coming...

Member of Parliament of Ukraine from the Batkivshchyna parliamentary faction Nadiia Savchenko has visited the Belarusian city of Minsk to attend talks with leaders of Donbas terrorist organizations, the Donetsk People`s Republic (”DPR”) and Luhansk People`s Republic (”LPR”), according to Ukrainian news portal Obozrevatel. ”It is no secret that...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will ask European Union leaders on Thursday to rule out financial or security guarantees for Ukraine and not to offer Ukrainians the right to live and work in the bloc, according to a document seen by Reuters. Failure to meet the Dutch demands would jeopardize a landmark EU-Ukraine agreement that establishes closer...

For millennia, rules have been at the core of athletic competition. Not that they haven`t been broken, but the Olympics still stand for the principle of human striving on a level playing field, or the primacy of rules, according to The Washington Post. This is why the final report of Richard H. McLaren`s investigation into Russian doping of...

Several documents on expansion of bilateral cooperation between the states have been signed in the presence of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite who is on a working visit to Ukraine. The Agreement between the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine and the Ministry of Environment of...

S&P Global Ratings expects that Ukraine is likely to receive a new disbursement from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ukraine`s key lender, in the first half of 2017. ”Since the beginning of last year, the IMF has disbursed over US$7.6 billion of the $17.5 billion available under the four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program. Our...

Ukraine and Lithuania are marking the 25th anniversary of its diplomatic relations since the moment when the two countries turned a new page in bilateral cooperation, sharing deep historical roots. ”A quarter century of intergovernmental relations, which has passed since the opening of diplomatic missions in Kyiv in 1992 and in Vilnius in 1993,...